1. Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.
2. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,
3. “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
4. But Peter began and explained it to them in order:
5. “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me.
6. Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.
7. And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’